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Under the Sumbang Tunai Rahmah (STR), eligible recipients receive direct cash assistance from the government to help cover living costs. — Picture by Yusof Isa
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

With Sara closing, Malaysians can access alternative govt cash and subsidy programmes

BAM doubles coaching director Rexy Mainaky said he is ready to step down as part of taking responsibility for the four-gold shortfall in Malaysia’s 2025 SEA Games badminton results. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 15 h ago

One gold, two silver, six bronze: Malaysia’s badminton chief admits shortfall, open to stepping down after SEA Games results

Malaysia’s sepak takraw team celebrates their historic 2-1 victory over Thailand in the men’s team regu final at Nakhon Pathom Gymnasium, ending a 34-year gold drought. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 15 h ago

Malaysia ends 34-year drought with SEA Games team regu gold over Thailand

Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 16 h ago

Bloodshed at Bondi: 11 killed as gunfire tears through Sydney beach

Malaysia secured its first badminton gold of the SEA Games today after national women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan and M Thinaah triumphed in Bangkok. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 19 h ago

Pearly Tan–Thinaah break the spell as Malaysia finally strikes SEA Games gold

After four records and the 2025 SEA Games gold in Thailand, the Malaysian and Sarawak governments are lining up rewards for hammer thrower Grace Wong. — Picture from X/Bernama_Radio
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

Sarawak, Putrajaya to reward record-breaking SEA Games gold medallist Grace Wong

Soh Wooi Yik (left) and Aaron Chia took the silver in the men’s doubles badminton final at the 2025 SEA Games in Bangkok on December 14, 2025. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 15 h ago

SEA Games heartbreak for Malaysia’s Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik as Indonesia claims men’s doubles gold

The Kuala Terengganu High Court ruled today that the earlier defamation trial against Clare Rewcastle-Brown was invalid and must be reheard. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Kuala Terengganu High Court orders retrial in Clare Rewcastle-Brown defamation case

In a statement uploaded on his Facebook page, Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi said the declaration was made in compliance with the decree of the Regent of Johor, Tunku Mahkota Ismail, as a mark of celebration for the team’s outstanding achievement in continuing its dominance in Malaysian football. — Picture from Facebook/Onn Hafiz Ghazi
Malaysia  / 2 h ago

Johor declares special public holiday after JDT’s FA Cup 2025 win, SPM exams to proceed as scheduled

Sarawak DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen said the latest victim, identified as Hong, had invested RM300,000 in the investment fund proposed by the BSN employee in question in 2024 and only realised he had been scammed after news reports emerged in 2025. — File picture by Miera Zulyana
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

BSN payouts coming next week for victims of employee-linked investment scam, says Sarawak DAP chief

Despite nearly 80 per cent of speed tests being conducted on 5G-capable devices, most Malaysian users still spend two-thirds of their time on 4G networks due to coverage gaps. — Picture by Mukhriz Hashim
Malaysia  / 1 h ago

Malaysia’s 5G speeds have nearly halved as network comes under strain, Ookla reports

People cross a street next to police vehicles after the shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 14 h ago

Bondi Beach massacre draws international outrage, leaders vow to fight antisemitism

Personal belongings lie at the scene of a deadly shooting during a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025. — AFP pic
World  / 1 h ago

Bondi shooting leaves 16 dead as Australian police identify father-and-son gunmen in alleged antisemitic attack

People hold placards during a Hanukkah menorah lighting in Berlin, Germany on December 14, 2025, in solidarity with Australians after the Bondi Beach shooting. — AFP pic
World  / 1 h ago

Fruit seller disarms Bondi Beach gunman, now hospitalised with gunshot wounds as world hail him as ‘hero’

Mosti is holding STI Madani Carnivals nationwide to empower young Malaysians and boost the country’s chances to reach developed nationhood. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

Malaysia needs 70pc of jobs in STEM to reach developed nation status, says Mosti official

Abortion was decriminalised by South Korea’s Constitutional Court in 2019, but no new law has since been passed, leaving late-term procedures in a legal grey area and potentially subject to criminal charges. — Pexels pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Seoul doctor charged with murder after nine-month abortion, exposing South Korea’s legal vacuum

Buddhist monks make merit during Wesak Day celebrations at Wat Dhammakaya Buddhist temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, May 11, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Phuket monk guns down fellow cleric in temple bathroom over loud phone, alleged bullying

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (left) and German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt have a conversation before the start of a session at the Bundestag in Berlin June 24, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Germany backs Israel after Iran war in first high-level visit

A man holds portraits of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) and the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during the funeral procession of military commanders and scientists killed during Israeli strikes, in Tehran June 28, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Iran judiciary says Israeli strike on Tehran’s Evin prison killed 71

A drone view shows buildings and roads are half submerged in floodwaters after heavy rainfalls, in Rongjiang county, Guizhou province, China June 24, 2025. — China Daily pic via Reuters
World / 29 Jun 2025

300mm and counting: China issues yellow alert as torrential downpours loom

US Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to the media, after a Senate GOP lunch, as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass US President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax Bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington June 28, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful Bill’ clears first US Senate hurdle after GOP drama

Taiwan’s Vice-President Hsiao Bi-khim waved off China’s alleged intimidation plot during her 2024 visit to Prague, calling the CCP’s actions ‘unlawful’ and vowing not to be silenced. — Reuters pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Taiwan VP Hsiao Bi-khim says she won’t be silenced after China allegedly ‘planned car crash’ during 2024 Prague visit

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium ‘in a matter of months,’ despite damage to several nuclear facilities from US and Israeli attacks, CBS News said yesterday. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Iran could again enrich uranium ‘in matter of months’, says IAEA chief

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of loved ones killed during overnight Israeli strikes, on the grounds of Al-Shifa hospital in the central Gaza Strip June 28, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Gaza civil defence says Israeli forces kill 37, including children

A woman protects herself from the sun with a fan during the first heatwave of the summer in Seville June 28, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Europe swelters: First heatwave of summer pushes thermometers past 45C

The wreckage of cars lies on the remains of the Shambat Bridge, which connects Omdurman and Bahri, June 24, 2025 in the Sudanese capital region. Clashes between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war since April 2023, have intensified in the country’s west and south in recent weeks. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

US slaps Sudan with sanctions over chemical attacks — here’s what we know

People take part in the Budapest Pride parade in Budapest downtown on June 28, 2025, as the capital’s municipality organised this march by the LGBTQ community, celebrating freedom, in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. — AFP pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

‘Love can’t be banned’: Budapest Pride defies Orban clampdown with record 200,000 crowd

File picture of US President Donald Trump speaking as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves following a meeting in the White House Washington, April 7, 2025. The US leader has likened Netanyahu’s legal troubles to his own before he took office for his second term. — Reuters pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Trump calls Netanyahu a ‘war hero’, slams corruption trial as ‘witch hunt’

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media, after the US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C. June 27, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

Deportations, firings and immigration: Legal clashes mount at US Supreme Court over Trump’s post-return executive orders

Hamas militants carry the coffin of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 29 Jun 2025

‘It doesn’t look good’: Battling to survive, Hamas faces revolt from clans and waning Iranian support

Khamenei is 86 and suffers the effects of a 1981 assassination attempt in Tehran which paralysed his right arm, a disability he has never made any attempt to hide. — AFP pic
World / 28 Jun 2025

Iran’s Khamenei resurfaces to claim ‘victory’ over Israel, but doubts grow over his authority and role in war decisions